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| Title | Holocene evolution of rivers |
| Group | Soil Geography and Landscape |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 36 |
| Supervisor(s) | Jasper Candel; Bart Makaske; Jakob Wallinga |
| Examiner(s) | Jasper Candel |
| Contact info | jasper.candel@wur.nl |
| Begin date | 2022/01/03 |
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| Description | Why do rivers develop certain river patterns? Why do some rivers meander, while others braid, anastomose or are laterally stable? Knowledge of why these river patterns form is very limited, while such knowledge is vital for long-term river management. Recently it was found that the role of the subsurface is important in explaining the variety of river patterns, but high-resolution geological data from river valleys is scarce.
The aim of this thesis topic is to unravel the causes of river patterns of rivers from around the world by doing geological and geomorphological fieldwork, and quantify the role of different parameters on river pattern that will be measured in the field. Countries in which rivers can be investigated for this thesis are: Canada (Calgary), Northern-Sweden, Poland, Italy, Ireland, Belgium, Germany. So depending on your preference, we can arrange local support at these countries for you from the universities that we have good contacts with. There are also many locations within the Netherlands where we have questions considering river patterns. The methods that you use will differ per location, but can be: geological corings, grain size-measurements from the river, radiocarbon-dating or optically stimulated luminescence dating, palaeodischarge reconstructions, use of ground-penetrating radar, bathymetry measurements, historical map analysis. This thesis could also be done by two students. Both students will get different independent topics, but a combination of fieldsites and fieldwork is possible. |
| Used skills | Fieldwork; GIS; Geophysical methods; dating methods |
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